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Archive for August, 2008

How I Lost 40 Pounds in 40 Days - The HCG Diet

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Personal | 26 Comments »

The last few weeks have been quite a journey for me. A little over 40 days ago, I weighed in at a whopping 247 pounds. That's about 50 pounds more than I should weigh and is for the most part the result of eleven plus years of poor eating habits and lack of exercise. Today as I write this post, I weigh 210 pounds. How did I lose so much weight in such little time? ...

Netflix Credits Customer Accounts 15% - Is It Enough?

Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in Hobbies and Interests | 3 Comments »

If you are not one of the 8 million subscribers that Netflix currently has, you may or may not have heard about the DVD rental giant's disaster last week when their shipping system all but died. It all started last Tuesday when Netflix reported a technical glitch that prevented them from sending out DVDs to subscribers. Those issues continued at many of their 55 distribution centers through Thursday when on Friday they finally appeared to ...